Movements close out the 'Happier Now' tour in Santa Ana

The Southern California post-hardcore band ends its fall run at home on Sat, Nov 14, with Balance and Composure, Midrift and NIIS.

Six weeks after leaving Seattle, Movements come home. Movements play Observatory Festival Grounds in Santa Ana on Sat, Nov 14, with Balance and Composure, Midrift and NIIS. The night starts at 6 p.m., and tickets are through Ticketmaster.

It's the last night of the tour. BrooklynVegan laid out the run when it was announced: it opened Oct 7 at Showbox SoDo in Seattle and wraps Nov 14 in Santa Ana, with stops along the way at New York's Terminal 5 on Oct 23 and Dallas's Bomb Factory on Nov 11. In the past couple of weeks, the band has been working the East Coast and Florida — Washington, D.C., Richmond, Hampton Roads, Raleigh–Durham, Tampa and Orlando — before the swing back west. For a band Metal on Tap calls "Southern California post-hardcore mainstays," closing the tour in Orange County is a homecoming.

The tour is built around *Happier Now*, the band's fourth full-length, released Sept 4 on Fearless Records. The rollout started with lead single "Everything Is Fine," which Scene Music Media covered when the album was announced, and continued with "Separate", "Live by the Sword" and a video for "Pulse" in September. By the time they reach Santa Ana, those songs will have had six weeks of nightly road-testing, which usually means the tightest set of the run.

The support bill is stacked deep. Balance and Composure, Midrift and NIIS have been on the whole tour, per BrooklynVegan, and Balance and Composure on their own would be a draw for plenty of the same crowd. With four bands and a 6 p.m. start, this is a full evening, not a quick headline set.

The tour's last night tends to be its loosest and its loudest: the bands are tired, happy and done holding anything back, and a hometown crowd gives it right back to them. That's a good bet for Saturday.

What to know: start time is 6 p.m., so the openers will be on early — get there at the top of the night if you want to see the whole bill. Tickets are through Ticketmaster. Plan your parking and ride in advance; a sold-out-feeling Saturday in Santa Ana fills the surrounding streets fast.

Some tours end in a random city on a Tuesday. This one ends at home on a Saturday, with a new record to celebrate. Go be part of the last chorus.

Sources: BrooklynVegan: Movements announce fall US tour with Balance and Composure, Midrift, NIIS (brooklynvegan.com); mxdwn: Movements at Terminal 5 on October 23rd (music.mxdwn.com); Metal on Tap: Movements share Live by the Sword, Happier Now arrives September 4 via Fearless Records (metalontap.com); Scene Music Media: Movements announce Happier Now, share Everything Is Fine (scenemusicmedia.com); Scene Music Media: Movements release video for Separate (scenemusicmedia.com); Lambgoat: Movements premiere Pulse music video (lambgoat.com); Ticketmaster: Movements at Observatory Festival Grounds (ticketmaster.evyy.net); JamBase: Movements at Observatory Festival Grounds (jambase.com)